Improved hat-rack and seat



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVED HAT-KRACK AND SEAT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,076, dated August 14, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. BLAKE, ot'

Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and` State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement-viz., the Combination ot' a Hat-Rack with a Church-Pew or other Seat; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters `ot reference marked thereon. l

` The nature ot my invention consists in the combination land arrangement of y a hatrack with a church-pew or other seat, said rack and pew being constructed, arranged, and operating in the manner hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view ot' an ordinary pew ot' a church, said pew being turned down to show the back and under side of the seat and the manner ot' attaching `the hat-rack thereto. Fig. 2 represents an end view ofthe pew with a hat-rack attached to it.

In the drawings, A represents the end of pew. B represents the back board. C represents the seat. `D represents the front or foot-board.

f represents the hat-rack, which is made of wire, bent in the form represented in Fig. 1 and is secured to the back of the seat at the points marked i.

Themanner of constructing the hat-rack and the mode otl attaching it to the seat will readily be understood by the skillful mechanic by a simple reference to Fig. l.

In Fig. 2 the hat-rack is represented as being made in two parts, the wire being bent into the desired form and so arranged that the ends of the Wire can be driven into the seat at any suitable point.

Other modes of constructing` the rack and other methods ot' attaching the rack to the seat will readily suggest themselves to the mind of the mechanic. Therefore Ido not conne myself to any one form or manner ot' constructing or method of attaching the hatrack to the seat. All this I leave to the good judgment and skill of the mechanic.' y

The manner of supporting the hat in and on the rack is shown in Fig. 1, e represent ing a hat hung in the rack, which is so arranged that the hat will be held up ofi' the loor and under the seat.

Having thus described the nature, construe tion, and operation of my improvement, what I claim is- The hat-rack j, in combination with the seat l C, constructed, arranged, combined, and operzatiug substantially as herein described andr? for the purpose set forth.

E. S. BLAKE.

Witnesses: I

JAMES J. JOHNSTON, J AMES MCBEIDE. 

